topic Re: swinstall/swremove problem in Operating System - HP-UX

swinstall/swremove problem

MikeL_4 — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 15:23:59 GMT

I was running a swinstall and lost my connection to the server. When checking the swinstall process was not running. When I tried to go into swremove to clean up what was installing before trying again, it tells me:
This target or source is already in use either within this same session or by another session. A read or write lock was denied.

How can I clear this to continue on ?

Re: swinstall/swremove problem

A. Clay Stephenson — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 15:39:42 GMT

Locking is controlled by placing a lock on /var/adm/sw/products/swlock. You probably need to:
cd /sbin/init.d
./swagentd stop
./swagentd start

Re: swinstall/swremove problem

MikeL_4 — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 15:46:21 GMT

Thanks